Ronnie Ries

Ronnie Ries is the VP of Marketing at GPMS. Ronnie has led the promotion and sales of military, commercial, and aftermarket for nearly 20 years. Previously, he served as Head of Commercial Marketing & Customer Experience at Bell where he led the digital transformation with projects includes an immersive digital marketing experience, a new customer portal, development of configurator tools, deployment/management of Salesforce.com and more. He ran a global marketing team covering all the commercial products and services across the regions.

Ries is a graduate of Texas A&M University-Kingsville and has an MBA from Texas Christian University (TCU). He previously served as Chair of the Transportation Research Board – Civil Helicopter Subcommittee and is a certified Six Sigma Green and Black Belt. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas with his wife and 4 children, though that tends to grow throughout the year as they are a foster/adoption family. He enjoys spending his free time playing video games (with or without his kids!) and binge-watching shows while BBQing.